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10m Women's Air Rifle
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14-08-2004 3:20pm#1The first event of the 2004 olympics is concluded and the first medal awarded!
China's Du Li managed to steal past Russia's Lioubov Galinka to take the Gold medal, while both shooters managed to set new Olympic Records for the Final score and the Qualifying score, respectively.
Sadly, we didn't see live coverage of the finals on RTE, but as the results show, it was exceptionally tight. The overall results show a range of scores from Galinka's 399 to the last finalist Laurence Brieze's 396, to the bottom of the score table with 368, but the top twelve are all between 399 and 395.
Du Li takes the winning shot
The finals scores were no less tight, with only one 9 each for the top three competitors, and the margin between gold and silver was 0.5 points after the seventy shots, with Du Li scoring 502.0 and setting a new olympic record, and Lioubov Galinka scoring 501.5. Incredibly, the margin between silver and bronze was even less, with only 0.4 points between Galinka and Katerina Kurkova. Not to be outdone in closeness, Zhao Yinghui came in fourth only 0.3 points behind Kurkova.
One event down, sixteen to go!0
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